B&H Warehouse Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join United Steelworkers
Workers in B&H’s two Brooklyn warehouses voted overwhelmingly today for union representation with the United Steelworkers, in an election…
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How the New Flexible Economy Is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
These days it’s not unusual for someone on the way to work to receive a text message from her…
Union Takes on L.A.’s Largest Charter Chain
Teachers and counselors at Los Angeles’ largest charter school chain are thinking big. Instead of unionizing school by school,…
What the NYPD Slowdown Revealed
About a week and a half after the NYPD seemed to have ended its “slowdown” in ticketing and meting…
How NYC Kaplan Teachers Won a Union Contract
On one side of town, tourists and young professionals head downtown on light rail: clean, air-conditioned, fast. If there’s…
Week-Long Strikes Push Hyatt for Contracts, Right to Solidarity
Hotel workers escalated their efforts to move hotel giant Hyatt at the bargaining table, striking hotels in four cities…
WI Assembly Republicans Pass Walker’s Budget Bill in Sneak Vote at 1:30 a.m.
If there was any doubt about the anti-Democratic nature of the power grab that’s going on in Wisconsin’s Capitol…
Stella Workers Hoping for a Miracle
On Oct. 2, a crowd of 200 people gathered outside the gates of the Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. at…
The 136 workers who ended their strike against Bronx-based Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. in July could offer a test case of whether…